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Amnesty International reports violation of Italy Roma rights

Published in Monday September 17th, 2012 In In the media

September 15, 2012 Amnesty International has recently released a report called “On the Edge” which urges Italy to change its laws, policies and practices that marginalize the Roma people, also known as Gypsies. An estimated 200,000 Roma people live in Italy today, the majority of them in encampments on the outskirts of cities such as […]

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In India, fear of eviction haunts 6,000 people in reserve forest

Published in Monday September 17th, 2012 In In the media

September 16, 2012 The Karnataka High Court has given them time till December-end to vacate A recent Karnataka High Court order has given 6,000 people time till December-end to vacate their land. The order, issued in April, came after the Forest Department declared 6,777 acres of the Thotadur Gram Panchayat a reserve forest. The impending […]

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2012 Communications Report available for viewing

Published in Friday September 14th, 2012 In Dialogue with countries

The UN Human Rights Council has already made available for viewing the report with all communications sent by the Special Rapporteurs, as well as the answers received by the Member States.

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Squatter Eviction to Be Supervised By Law in Kenya

Published in Friday September 14th, 2012 In In the media

September 13, 2012 A Bill seeking to regulate future forced evictions of people occupying illegal land was introduced in the House yesterday for the first reading. The Evictions and Resettlement Procedures Bill, sponsored by Kisumu Town East MP Shakeel Shabbir, seeks to protect people occupying land from unlawful and non-procedural evictions. The purpose of the […]

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West African Floods Bring Back the Same Old Problems

Published in Thursday September 13th, 2012 In In the media

September 12, 2012 This story was written under the auspices of the TRF/NORAD Journalism Training project. Amid the commotion in the flooded Saga district of Niger’s capital Niamey, on the left bank of the Niger river, Issa Ali and his two wives are scrambling about in the water. With their four children already safe from […]

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Italy’s Roma still segregated and without prospects

Published in Thursday September 13th, 2012 In Social movement news

September 12, 2012 Discriminatory laws, policies and practices which marginalize Italy’s Roma must be urgently changed, Amnesty international said in a briefing published today. On the edge: Roma, forced evictions and segregation in Italy, exposes the continuing systematic failure of Italian authorities to uphold Roma rights. In the 10 months since Italy’s highest administrative court […]

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Squatters to march against evictions

Published in Tuesday September 11th, 2012 In In the media

September 10, 2012 THE squatters who were evicted from an industrial site in Marlboro, Johannesburg, by the City of Johannesburg, have vowed to take their fight to the street after losing a court battle two weeks ago. About 150 families, who are now staying in six military tents, a few metres from where they were […]

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‘Floods Kill 137 Since July’ in Nigeria

Published in Tuesday September 11th, 2012 In In the media

September 10, 2012 Floods across Nigeria have killed 137 people and displaced more than 30,000 since the beginning of July, the Red Cross said yesterday. Nigeria, which has a rainy season from May to September, suffers from seasonal flash floods, which are sometimes lethal, especially in rural areas or overcrowded slums where drainage is poor […]

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Fresh Floods Render Thousands Homeless and Destroy Crops in Taraba, Nigeria

Published in Tuesday September 11th, 2012 In In the media

September 10, 2012 More floods have hit Northern and Central Taraba, ravaging communities on the banks of River Benue. The Chairman of Ardo-Kola Local Government,Dr Jalo Buba, told the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) in Sunkani on Monday. He said more than 3,000 hectares of crops, mainly rice, had been destroyed by the floods in 13 […]

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Tribunal on Evictions: Affected Communities Accuse Governments and UN-Habitat

Published in Monday September 10th, 2012 In Social movement news

Following the Salzano-Roussopulos dialogue on the right to the city and common goods, the workshop on zero evictions, and the international meeting of those negatively affected by real estate markets, the first day of the Urban Social Forum (which brings together social movements and organizations from various countries) came to a close with the Tribunal on evictions and land grabbing, held opposite the exhibition grounds where UN-Habitat’s World Urban Forum (WUF 6) is being held in Naples, Italy. Watch the video about the Tribunal below.

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